On Nate Parker, and lessons my father tried to teach me about rape
“As a grown woman, I now understand my father’s attempted lesson about rape was wholly imperfect. The best he could do was give me a book. He didn’t have the words or model to talk to his young daughter about rape culture — but at least he had the will.
“Do we? Or must we rewrite the same stories again and again, with different characters and plotlines, but always, always, the same sad and tragic ending.”
The “Birth of a Nation” director’s 1999 case invites us to examine rape culture — but do we have the will?
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